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called also jeté en tournant

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French, literally, thrown turn

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7 Commonly Used Ballet Terms, and What They Actually Mean in France

Do you call the pirouette position passé or retiré, or do you use both? What about the term élevé? Do you use it? Have you ever considered what these French words actually mean?

“Ballet terminology is somewhat subjective,” says Raymond Lukens of ABT’s JKO School. “Often there is no definitive way to say something. What’s really important is to create a picture in the minds of your students so that they will do the step you’re asking the best way possible. You can split hairs forever over this stuff!”

Another thing to keep in mind is this, says Lukens: “For the French, ballet terms are seen as verbs or action words, and to non-French speakers they’re seen as labels for the movements.”

Tendu Everyone in the world who knows ballet understands what you mean when you say, “Four tendus front,” but the French say dégagez four times front. Dégager means “to disengage.” You dégagé the leg to the front, side or back from a closed fifth or first position to an open position. You can dégagé to the floor, at half height (what Americans commonly know as dégagé) or at full height. Tendu means “stretched,” so the French may command in class, “Dégagez à terre avec la pointe tendue.

Penché Pencher means “to lean.” I was watching a class at the Paris Opéra Ballet School and the teacher told the students, “Penchez en avant et relevez-vous.” What do we envision immediately? A penché in arabesque and a relevé onto demi-pointe in arabesque. But the teacher was simply saying, “Bend the body forward (with both feet in first position) and recover.”

Passé Passer means to pass the foot from front to back and vice versa. If the foot remains in front, where are you passing to? With pirouettes: If you’re in fourth position and you bring the back foot to the front for an en dehors turn, that can be seen as a passé, but if you are in fifth with the right foot front and you lift it to the front of the knee to turn, that would properly be called retiré, which means “withdrawn.” In ABT’s curriculum, for consistency and to avoid confusion, we use the term retiré for all pirouettes, because you withdraw the foot no matter what position you begin from.

Tour jeté The French call this movement grand jeté en tournant and post-Vaganova teachers call it grand jeté entrelacé. Claude Bessy, former director of the Paris Opéra Ballet School, says that “tour jeté” makes no sense and that entrelacé does not pertain to the movement unless you do the movement with beats.

Élevé My biggest pet peeve is the use of the term élevé to describe a relevé without the use of the demi-plié. When I asked a former dancer from the Paris Opéra Ballet about this term, she looked at me with the most curious tilt of the head and asked, “How does élever pertain to ballet? I élève my glass for a toast, I can élève chickens,” which translates as “I raise my glass,” or I can “breed chickens,” “but there is no élevé movement in ballet.” The translation for élever is “to raise, bring up, breed or rear.” The reflexive verb se relever means “to raise oneself, to get up,” so when you do a relevé with straight knees, that’s just what you say.

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Entrechat literally means “between cat.” All we can suppose is that the term came from French masters distorting the Italian word intrecciare (sounds like intrecharay), which means “to interweave, interlace.” But who knows!

Sauté is the past participle of the verb sauter, “to jump.” So when we ask a student to do 16 sautés we are asking the student to do 16 “jumped.”

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Do you call the pirouette position passé or retiré, or do you use both? What about the term élevé? Do you use it? Have you ever considered what these French words actually mean?

“Ballet terminology is somewhat subjective,” says Raymond Lukens of ABT’s JKO School. “Often there is no definitive way to say something. What’s really important is to create a picture in the minds of your students so that they will do the step you’re asking the best way possible. You can split hairs forever over this stuff!”

Another thing to keep in mind is this, says Lukens: “For the French, ballet terms are seen as verbs or action words, and to non-French speakers they’re seen as labels for the movements.”

Tendu Everyone in the world who knows ballet understands what you mean when you say, “Four tendus front,” but the French say dégagez four times front. Dégager means “to disengage.” You dégagé the leg to the front, side or back from a closed fifth or first position to an open position. You can dégagé to the floor, at half height (what Americans commonly know as dégagé) or at full height. Tendu means “stretched,” so the French may command in class, “Dégagez à terre avec la pointe tendue.”

Penché Pencher means “to lean.” I was watching a class at the Paris Opéra Ballet School and the teacher told the students, “Penchez en avant et relevez-vous.” What do we envision immediately? A penché in arabesque and a relevé onto demi-pointe in arabesque. But the teacher was simply saying, “Bend the body forward (with both feet in first position) and recover.”

Passé Passer means to pass the foot from front to back and vice versa. If the foot remains in front, where are you passing to? With pirouettes: If you’re in fourth position and you bring the back foot to the front for an en dehors turn, that can be seen as a passé, but if you are in fifth with the right foot front and you lift it to the front of the knee to turn, that would properly be called retiré, which means “withdrawn.” In ABT’s curriculum, for consistency and to avoid confusion, we use the term retiré for all pirouettes, because you withdraw the foot no matter what position you begin from.

Tour jeté The French call this movement grand jeté en tournant and post-Vaganova teachers call it grand jeté entrelacé. Claude Bessy, former director of the Paris Opéra Ballet School, says that “tour jeté” makes no sense and that entrelacé does not pertain to the movement unless you do the movement with beats.

Élevé My biggest pet peeve is the use of the term élevé to describe a relevé without the use of the demi-plié. When I asked a former dancer from the Paris Opéra Ballet about this term, she looked at me with the most curious tilt of the head and asked, “How does élever pertain to ballet? I élève my glass for a toast, I can élève chickens,” which translates as “I raise my glass,” or I can “breed chickens,” “but there is no élevé movement in ballet.” The translation for élever is “to raise, bring up, breed or rear.” The reflexive verb se relever means “to raise oneself, to get up,” so when you do a relevé with straight knees, that’s just what you say.

Did you know?

Entrechat literally means “between cat.” All we can suppose is that the term came from French masters distorting the Italian word intrecciare (sounds like intrecharay), which means “to interweave, interlace.” But who knows!

Sauté is the past participle of the verb sauter, “to jump.” So when we ask a student to do 16 sautés we are asking the student to do 16 “jumped.”

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What is the translation of "jeté" in English?

"jeté" in english.

• volume_up jeté

jeté {adj. m}

• volume_up thrown
• thrown away

jeter {v.t.}

• volume_up blurt
• volume_up throw

épaulé-jeté {m}

• volume_up clean and jerk

"jeté" in French

Translations, jeté {masculine}, jeté {adjective masculine}.

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jeter [ jetant|jeté ] {transitive verb}

• "à la poubelle"

jeter [ jetant|jeté ] {verb}

Épaulé-jeté {masculine}, jeté {noun}, context sentences, french english contextual examples of "jeté" in english.

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French how to use "jeté" in a sentence, french how to use "jeter" in a sentence, french how to use "épaulé-jeté" in a sentence, french how to use "thrown away" in a sentence, french how to use "thrown out" in a sentence, synonyms (french) for "jeter":.

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• jeter une pierre dans le jardin de quelqu'un
• jeter violemment
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• jeteur de sorts
• jeton de présence
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a jump forward, backward, or to the side, from one foot to the other.

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How to use jeté in a sentence

Mrs. Mayston Ryle was there in a wonderful jete-black wig, and a voluminous dress of violet silk.

I had seen him once or twice before, in the street and on the Jete.

In the afternoon she drove out, alighted at the Jete, paid her visits.

Elle naura ni cesse ni rpit, quelle ne lait jete bas, quelle nen ait sem les poussires au vent.

Thus standing at death's portals, Frederick wrote his most beautiful poem, called "Ami le sort en est jete'."

British Dictionary definitions for jeté

/ ( ʒəˈteɪ ) /

ballet a step in which the dancer springs from one leg and lands on the other

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jeté en tournant noun

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What does the phrase jeté en tournant mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the phrase jeté en tournant . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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The earliest known use of the phrase jeté en tournant is in the 1930s.

OED's earliest evidence for jeté en tournant is from 1930, in a text by M. Craske and C. W. Beaumont.

jeté en tournant is a borrowing from French.

Etymons: French jeté en tournant .

Nearby entries

• jet ant, n. 1747–
• jetavator, n. 1960–
• jet bike, n. 1947–
• jet-black, adj. a1477–
• jetboat, n. 1952–
• jet boating, n. 1960–
• jet break, n. 1887–
• jet coal, n. 1794–
• jet d'eau, n. 1669–
• jeté, n. 1830–
• jeté en tournant, n. 1930–
• jet engine, n. 1933–
• jet-engined, adj. 1946–
• jet flap, n. 1955–
• Jetfoil, n. 1972–
• jet glass, n. 1914–
• jet hop, n. 1948–
• jet-hop, v. 1964–
• jet injector, n. 1947–
• jet jockey, n. 1946–
• jet lag, n. 1965–

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jeté en tournant, n. was revised in June 2011.

jeté en tournant, n. was last modified in July 2023.

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